Better laws, safer communities

This video includes interviews and highlights from a regional conference on disaster law in West Africa co-hosted by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and ECOWAS in Dakar in September 2012.

For Arabic visit: http://bit.ly/1vd68nZ The International Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles (IDRL) Programme seeks to reduce human vulnerability by promoting legal preparedness for disasters through advocacy, technical assistance, tra...

Over the past 20 years, disasters due to natural hazards have affected 4.4 billion people, claimed 1.3 million lives and caused 2 trillion US dollars in economic losses. These disasters not only brought death and destruction, they did so disproportio...